Eros and the intoxications of enlightenment : on Plato's Symposium

Eros and the intoxications of enlightenment : on Plato's Symposium / Steven Berg.

"An original analysis of one of Plato's most well-known and pivotal dialogues, this study is based upon the effort to think together the most manifest themes of the Symposium (the nature of eros and the relation between poetry and philosophy) with its less obvious but no less essential the...

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Main Author: Berg, Steven, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Series:SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
Subjects:
Plato. > Symposium.
Socrates.
Socrates
Symposium (Plato)
Love.
love (emotion)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Love
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Athens and Enlightenment
  • Socrates made beautiful
  • Phaedrus : Phaedrus' best city in speech
  • Pausanias : noble lies and the fulfillment of greekness
  • Eryximachus : sovereign science and the sacred law
  • Athens and the poets
  • Aristophanes : Eros, soul, and law
  • Agathon : Eros, soul, and rhetoric
  • Socrates and Athens
  • Socrates : daimonic eros
  • Alcibiades : divine Socrates
  • Conclusion: Socrates and Plato.

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